Departements

College of Business and Economics Aspires to be one of the best center of Excellent and Service Rendering College in the University by 2020.

1.1Mission Statement:

College of Business and Economics is to produce competent entrepreneur graduates, provide need based community services and demand driven/problem – solving research outputs through relevant and quality service to foster socio- economic development in the country.

College of Business and
Economics was established in 1999 E.C. (2006/07) with business Management Department
and latter launched Accounting, Economics, Marketing Management, and Tourism
Management in 2000 E.C. (2007/08/. The College has also Commenced post graduate
programs in the field of Business Administration and Developmental Economics more over there is a plan to launch
other masters programs in the coming year to meet the growing demand for
qualified and competent man power in the fields of Business and Economics.

Currently, we have more
than 1700 students of which around 565 are extension and 91 post graduate
students in Robe and Shashemene Campus. The total number of instructors is 75
of which 30 on study leave and 3 Expatriate instructors.

Our
teachers, are young and highly motivated, our methods and curriculums are
harmonized and it’s all very industry focused- build on “real world”
experience.

In order to
support teaching learning for all departments, we have 2 computer laboratories
that was established in the year 2006 E.C.

The school of
Business and Economics carried out different researches, especially, on tourism
and participate in providing community services works. Some of the important
community services include:- launching entrepreneur training centers,
providing training on modern business
management, to traders, challenges and opportunities of Micro and Small scale
industries, Tourism and hospitality etc. in collaboration with research and
community service directorates of the University.

The importance of
Business Education in the modern world in general and in our country in
particular is increasing from time to time & the need for this education is
increasing tremendously due to the Growing size and complexity of business,
increasing specialization of work, cut throat competition in the market,
sophisticated and capital intensive technology, increasing complexity of
business decisions, growing regulation of business by the Government, need for
research and development, turbulent environment of business, need for
reconciling the interests of various groups of owners, workers, customers and
the public and for optimum utilization of scarce resources.